LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS REPORT OCTOBER 2018 MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOVEMBER 2, 2018
CHARTS 1. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 2. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 3. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 4. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY TABLES 1. PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA 2. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 3. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY AGE AND SEX 4. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 5. SELECTED CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RATES 6. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6A. FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6B. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6C. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6D. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6E. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 7. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Note All tables and charts contain seasonally adjusted data unless otherwise specified (I.e. part of table 1 and table 5)
CHART 1. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - OCT 2018) 16.0 14.0 PERCENT 14.3 12.0 10.0 9.5 8.0 6.0 4.8 5.4 5.6 5.9 6.0 6.2 6.7 7.7 7.9 4.0 2.0 0.0 B.C. QUE ONT CAN MAN SASK ALTA N.S. N.B. PEI NFLD CHART 2. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - OCT 2018) 20.0 PERCENT 18.0 16.5 17.9 16.0 14.0 12.0 11.1 11.7 11.7 12.2 12.5 13.1 13.4 10.0 8.0 6.0 8.1 9.4 4.0 2.0 0.0 B.C. QUE CAN MAN ONT SASK ALTA N.B. PEI N.S. NFLD DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA DATA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS
AGRIC ACC & OTHER TRANSP PROF & MGMT EDUC & HLTH PUB ADM INFO TRADE FINANCE CONST MFG FOREST UTIL CHART 3. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - OCT 18/17) 3.5 3.0 PERCENT 3.1 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.3 1.1 0.9 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.0 PEI ALTA ONT N.S. CAN QUE B.C. MAN N.B. NFLD SASK 0.0 CHART 4. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY (JAN - OCT 18/17) 15.0 PERCENT 10.0 5.0 8.9 6.0 5.0 2.9 2.2 1.9 0.0-5.0-10.0-1.3-2.1-3.0-3.8-4.2-6.9-15.0-20.0-19.7-25.0 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA DATA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS
TABLE 1: PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA MANITOBA CANADA OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 LABOUR FORCE seas. adj. 692,300 687,800 682,800 19,846,700 19,864,900 19,720,300 actual 691,300 687,300 681,900 19,813,900 19,824,500 19,676,200 EMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 649,900 648,100 646,800 18,705,000 18,693,800 18,499,100 part time 124,800 127,400 127,600 3,516,100 3,538,700 3,483,200 men 42,800 42,400 41,900 1,231,900 1,217,400 1,191,800 women 82,000 85,000 85,800 2,284,200 2,321,400 2,291,400 full time 525,100 520,700 519,200 15,189,000 15,155,100 15,016,000 men 301,600 300,900 299,300 8,534,600 8,553,000 8,473,800 women 223,500 219,800 219,900 6,654,400 6,602,100 6,542,200 actual 654,200 650,200 650,900 18,771,200 18,753,900 18,562,000 UNEMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 42,300 39,700 36,000 1,141,700 1,171,100 1,221,100 actual 37,200 37,000 31,000 1,042,700 1,070,600 1,114,200 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE seas. adj. 6.1 5.8 5.3 5.8 5.9 6.2 actual 5.4 5.4 4.5 5.3 5.4 5.7 PARTICIPATION RATE seas. adj. 67.4 67.0 67.1 65.2 65.4 65.7 actual 67.3 66.9 67.0 65.1 65.2 65.6 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS
TABLE 1 (CONTINUED): PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA MANITOBA CANADA PERCENT CHANGE PERCENT CHANGE LABOUR FORCE OCT 18/ OCT 18/ CHANGE OCT 18/ OCT 18/ CHANGE SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 18/17 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 18/17 seas. adj. 0.7% 1.4% 687,900 680,100 1.1% -0.1% 0.6% 19,788,400 19,643,800 0.7% actual 0.6% 1.4% 688,700 681,300 1.1% -0.1% 0.7% 19,811,700 19,671,200 0.7% EMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 0.3% 0.5% 646,500 643,400 0.5% 0.1% 1.1% 18,627,400 18,382,900 1.3% part time -2.0% -2.2% 127,800 123,300 3.6% -0.6% 0.9% 3,477,400 3,524,700-1.3% men 0.9% 2.1% 41,600 40,400 2.9% 1.2% 3.4% 1,189,100 1,231,100-3.4% women -3.5% -4.4% 86,200 82,900 3.9% -1.6% -0.3% 2,288,300 2,293,600-0.2% full time 0.8% 1.1% 518,800 520,000-0.2% 0.2% 1.2% 15,150,000 14,858,200 2.0% men 0.2% 0.8% 300,600 299,600 0.4% -0.2% 0.7% 8,555,200 8,387,200 2.0% women 1.7% 1.6% 218,200 220,500-1.0% 0.8% 1.7% 6,594,900 6,471,000 1.9% actual 0.6% 0.5% 646,900 644,100 0.4% 0.1% 1.1% 18,630,200 18,386,900 1.3% UNEMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 6.5% 17.5% 41,300 36,800 12.4% -2.5% -6.5% 1,161,000 1,260,900-7.9% actual 0.5% 20.0% 41,800 37,100 12.5% -2.6% -6.4% 1,181,500 1,284,300-8.0% seas. adj. 0.3pts 0.8pts 6.0 5.4 0.6 pts -0.1pts -0.4pts 5.9 6.4-0.6 pts actual 0.0pts 0.9pts 6.1 5.5 0.6 pts -0.1pts -0.4pts 6.0 6.5-0.6 pts PARTICIPATION RATE seas. adj. 0.4pts 0.3pts 67.2 67.2 0.0 pts -0.2pts -0.5pts 65.4 65.8-0.4 pts actual 0.4pts 0.3pts 67.3 67.3-0.1 pts -0.1pts -0.5pts 65.5 65.9-0.4 pts DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS year-to-date percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 2: UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 MANITOBA 6.1 5.8 5.3 6.0 5.4 CANADA 5.8 5.9 6.2 5.9 6.4 NFLD. 12.7 13.6 14.2 14.3 14.7 P.E.I. 7.2 8.7 10.2 9.5 10.0 N.S. 7.7 7.8 8.8 7.7 8.5 N.B. 7.2 7.9 7.8 7.9 8.1 QUEBEC 5.2 5.3 6.0 5.4 6.1 ONTARIO 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.6 6.1 SASK. 6.2 6.4 5.9 6.2 6.3 ALBERTA 7.3 7.0 7.6 6.7 8.0 B.C. 4.1 4.2 4.9 4.8 5.2 6.1 5.8 5.3 6.0 5.4 * MANITOBA RANK 4 3 2 4 2 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest
TABLE 3: UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY AGE AND SEX: MANITOBA CANADA OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 BOTH SEXES 6.1 5.8 5.3 6.0 5.4 5.8 5.9 6.2 5.9 6.4 15-24 12.4 11.2 11.2 11.7 11.6 11.0 11.0 11.1 11.1 11.7 25+ 5.0 4.7 4.1 4.9 4.2 4.9 5.1 5.4 5.0 5.6 MEN 6.3 6.2 5.5 6.5 5.7 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.2 6.9 15-24 13.2 12.3 12.9 13.6 12.8 13.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 13.4 25+ 5.0 5.1 4.1 5.2 4.4 5.0 5.2 5.7 5.2 5.8 WOMEN 5.9 5.3 5.0 5.4 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 5.5 5.9 15-24 11.4 9.9 9.2 9.7 10.3 8.7 9.7 9.9 9.6 10.0 25+ 4.9 4.3 4.2 4.6 4.0 4.9 4.9 5.1 4.9 5.2 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS
TABLE 4: YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES - 15 TO 24 YEARS OF AGE OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 MANITOBA 12.4 11.2 11.2 11.7 11.6 CANADA 11.0 11.0 11.1 11.1 11.7 NFLD. 19.7 20.7 17.3 17.9 17.3 P.E.I. 10.8 10.7 10.7 13.4 13.2 N.S. 15.9 16.6 17.6 16.5 16.9 N.B. 9.9 13.2 13.6 13.1 13.3 QUEBEC 9.1 8.7 11.3 9.4 10.4 ONTARIO 12.2 12.2 10.7 11.7 12.5 SASK. 12.1 11.5 12.5 12.2 11.6 ALBERTA 12.9 13.0 13.0 12.5 13.2 B.C. 6.7 6.8 7.9 8.1 8.7 12.4 11.2 11.2 11.7 11.6 * MANITOBA RANK 7 4 4 3 3 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest
TABLE 5: SELECTED CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ACTUAL THREE MONTH MOVING AVERAGES MONTHLY MONTHLY ACTUAL OCT 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 OCT 18 OCT 17 OCT 18 OCT 17 WINNIPEG 5.4 5.2 6.5 5.9 6.1 5.8 6.1 5.6 VANCOUVER 4.0 4.0 4.4 4.8 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.2 EDMONTON 6.0 6.6 6.6 8.3 6.2 7.7 6.3 7.8 CALGARY 8.2 7.6 8.0 8.8 8.3 8.2 8.2 8.1 REGINA 6.6 4.4 6.3 5.3 6.7 5.1 6.8 5.3 SASKATOON 5.4 6.8 6.9 7.9 6.6 7.4 6.9 7.7 TORONTO 5.9 5.6 6.2 6.7 6.4 6.0 6.3 5.9 OTTAWA 4.1 5.6 4.6 5.8 4.8 6.0 4.6 5.8 MONTREAL 5.4 6.5 6.2 6.8 6.0 6.8 5.9 6.6 HALIFAX 5.9 6.0 6.3 6.9 6.3 6.9 6.6 7.4 ST. JOHN'S 6.2 7.7 8.9 8.5 8.7 8.6 9.0 8.7 * WINNIPEG RANK 3 3 7 4 4 3 4 3 (OUT OF 11 CITIES) DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest
TABLE 6: TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 649,900 648,100 646,800 646,500 643,400 0.5% CANADA 18,705,000 18,693,800 18,499,100 18,627,400 18,382,900 1.3% NFLD. 226,300 227,100 224,800 224,700 223,900 0.3% P.E.I. 76,900 76,400 72,800 75,900 73,600 3.1% N.S. 457,500 456,200 448,000 455,100 448,500 1.5% N.B. 352,800 354,600 354,800 354,300 352,700 0.5% QUEBEC 4,254,100 4,245,000 4,247,700 4,261,800 4,216,500 1.1% ONTARIO 7,263,500 7,261,000 7,180,700 7,227,800 7,108,700 1.7% SASK. 573,500 571,000 563,900 569,000 568,700 0.0% ALBERTA 2,335,200 2,337,900 2,292,900 2,327,300 2,284,300 1.9% B.C. 2,515,300 2,516,400 2,466,900 2,485,200 2,462,600 0.9% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 6A. FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 525,100 520,700 519,200 518,800 520,000-0.2% CANADA 15,189,000 15,155,100 15,016,000 15,150,000 14,858,200 2.0% NFLD. 189,300 187,000 192,200 188,400 191,100-1.4% P.E.I. 65,200 64,800 60,500 63,600 61,600 3.2% N.S. 373,500 374,000 365,400 374,000 363,300 2.9% N.B. 300,800 301,500 302,500 303,000 301,700 0.4% QUEBEC 3,445,600 3,422,000 3,449,500 3,465,000 3,394,500 2.1% ONTARIO 5,922,100 5,914,600 5,832,000 5,900,600 5,762,600 2.4% SASK. 468,500 466,900 462,400 466,900 466,400 0.1% ALBERTA 1,919,700 1,911,100 1,889,100 1,911,800 1,864,200 2.6% B.C. 1,979,100 1,992,400 1,943,100 1,958,000 1,932,800 1.3% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 6B. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 124,800 127,400 127,600 127,800 123,300 3.6% CANADA 3,516,100 3,538,700 3,483,200 3,477,400 3,524,700-1.3% NFLD. 37,000 40,100 32,500 36,300 32,900 10.4% P.E.I. 11,600 11,700 12,300 12,300 12,000 2.8% N.S. 84,000 82,200 82,500 81,000 85,200-4.8% N.B. 52,000 53,000 52,300 51,300 51,000 0.6% QUEBEC 808,500 823,000 798,200 796,900 822,000-3.1% ONTARIO 1,341,400 1,346,400 1,348,700 1,327,200 1,346,100-1.4% SASK. 105,000 104,100 101,400 102,100 102,300-0.2% ALBERTA 415,500 426,800 403,700 415,500 420,100-1.1% B.C. 536,200 524,100 523,900 527,200 529,800-0.5% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 6C. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 488,200 484,300 483,400 484,500 482,200 0.5% CANADA 14,923,100 14,881,100 14,772,600 14,838,700 14,680,600 1.1% NFLD. 161,100 162,700 164,700 160,600 163,200-1.6% P.E.I. 56,400 56,500 53,600 56,100 54,100 3.6% N.S. 340,900 341,300 334,900 342,700 334,200 2.6% N.B. 264,000 264,400 268,500 266,100 266,100 0.0% QUEBEC 3,332,000 3,316,000 3,305,700 3,320,400 3,287,800 1.0% ONTARIO 5,877,000 5,859,400 5,845,300 5,854,800 5,785,900 1.2% SASK. 432,400 430,000 425,100 427,400 430,200-0.6% ALBERTA 1,896,800 1,898,300 1,862,900 1,886,300 1,848,000 2.1% B.C. 2,074,400 2,068,100 2,028,500 2,039,900 2,029,100 0.5% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 6D. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 161,700 163,800 163,400 162,000 161,200 0.5% CANADA 3,781,900 3,812,700 3,726,500 3,788,700 3,702,300 2.3% NFLD. 65,200 64,400 60,100 64,100 60,800 5.5% P.E.I. 20,500 19,900 19,200 19,800 19,400 1.8% N.S. 116,600 114,900 113,100 112,400 114,300-1.7% N.B. 88,800 90,200 86,300 88,200 86,600 1.9% QUEBEC 922,100 929,000 942,000 941,400 928,700 1.4% ONTARIO 1,386,500 1,401,600 1,335,400 1,372,900 1,322,800 3.8% SASK. 141,100 141,000 138,800 141,600 138,500 2.2% ALBERTA 438,400 439,600 430,000 441,000 436,400 1.1% B.C. 440,900 448,300 438,400 445,300 433,600 2.7% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 6E. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 62,200 62,400 63,100 61,600 64,300-4.2% CANADA 1,714,800 1,713,100 1,746,200 1,733,500 1,719,600 0.8% NFLD. 9,300 8,400 9,700 9,000 8,900 1.2% P.E.I. 7,200 7,100 6,200 6,800 6,500 4.9% N.S. 31,100 31,600 31,400 31,400 30,600 2.7% N.B. 29,500 29,400 32,800 31,400 31,200 0.4% QUEBEC 478,400 480,500 498,700 488,700 489,400-0.1% ONTARIO 768,400 757,900 777,000 771,300 767,900 0.4% SASK. 28,600 27,600 27,100 28,200 28,100 0.5% ALBERTA 125,900 131,400 121,700 129,400 118,300 9.4% B.C. 172,200 174,500 177,200 175,200 174,000 0.7% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.
TABLE 7: MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY: YEAR-TO-DATE-AVERAGES PERCENT OCT 18 SEP 18 OCT 17 JAN-OCT 18 JAN-OCT 17 CHANGE CANADA PERCENT CHANGE AGRICULTURE 25,700 25,700 24,700 25,900 23,800 8.9% -1.6% FORESTRY, FISHING & MINING 6,700 6,600 6,600 6,500 7,000-6.9% 3.5% UTILITIES 7,100 7,100 8,500 7,300 9,100-19.7% 7.2% CONSTRUCTION 46,400 45,900 48,000 46,500 48,400-3.8% 2.3% MANUFACTURING 62,200 62,400 63,100 61,600 64,300-4.2% 0.8% TRADE 87,000 87,900 89,700 88,800 90,700-2.1% -0.3% TRANSPORTATION SERVICES 40,400 39,800 36,500 38,600 36,700 5.0% 4.6% FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE 34,100 34,600 37,500 36,000 37,100-3.0% 0.7% & LEASING PROFESSIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE 51,800 50,300 48,700 48,800 47,400 2.9% 1.2% SERVICES EDUCATION & HEALTH SERVICES 157,300 156,900 155,100 156,300 153,000 2.2% 1.4% INFORMATION, CULTURE & RECREATION 23,800 23,400 23,500 23,500 23,800-1.3% 0.5% ACCOMMODATION & OTHER SERVICES 72,800 72,200 73,000 73,200 69,100 6.0% 2.4% PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 34,600 35,300 31,700 33,600 33,000 1.9% 0.7% TOTAL: ALL INDUSTRIES 649,900 648,100 646,800 646,500 643,400 0.5% 1.3% TOTAL: GOODS PRODUCING 148,100 147,800 150,900 147,800 152,500-3.1% 1.6% TOTAL: SERVICE PRODUCING 501,900 500,400 495,900 498,800 490,900 1.6% 1.2% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-date percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.